--- title: There Should Be an OPEC for Migrant Labor description: Why we need an OPEC for migrant labor, why we should stop publishing photos of terrorists and more. canonical: https://time.com/4458869/there-should-be-an-opec-for-migrant-labor/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-19T16:00:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:35.719Z article:section: Ideas og:title: There Should Be an OPEC for Migrant Labor og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4458869/there-should-be-an-opec-for-migrant-labor/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: There Should Be an OPEC for Migrant Labor twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # There Should Be an OPEC for Migrant Labor by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 19, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 19, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**There should be an OPEC for migrant labor.**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/an-opec-for-migrant-labor-by-sami-mahroum-2016-08) By Sami Mahroum in Project Syndicate **2\.** [**The data is clear: Everyone should stop publishing photos of terrorists.**](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/french-media-stopped-publishing-terrorists-photos-science-says-theyre-right) By Ankita Rao in Motherboard **3\.** [**The power of the human voice might save us from the tidal wave of email.**](http://qz.com/761410/in-a-global-workplace-voice-memos-are-a-quicker-simpler-kinder-alternative-to-email/) By Rosie Spinks in Quartz **4\.** [**Corporate expense policies are bad for women. Here’s how to fix them.**](http://fortune.com/2016/07/23/expense-policies-hurt-women/) By Dawn Bovasso in Fortune **5\.** [**Can we use extreme sports to teach our kids the value of taking risks?**](http://www.outsideonline.com/2105631/waiting-inhale) By Logan Ward in Outside Magazine  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4458869/there-should-be-an-opec-for-migrant-labor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4458869/there-should-be-an-opec-for-migrant-labor/"},"headline":"There Should Be an OPEC for Migrant Labor","datePublished":"2016-08-19T16:00:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:35.719Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4458869/there-should-be-an-opec-for-migrant-labor/","keywords":["Innovation","Terrorism","Email"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4458869/there-should-be-an-opec-for-migrant-labor/","name":"There Should Be an OPEC for Migrant Labor"}}]}] ```